The world has made tremendous progress in reducing extreme poverty. The percentage of people living in extreme poverty globally fell to a new low of 10 percent in 2015 — the latest number available — ...

The first table of the World Bank's World Development Report 2000/2001: Attacking Poverty shows that the number of people living on less than $1 a day grew from 1.18 billion in 1987 to 1.20 billion in ...

details the progress the world has made towards global development goals and examines the impact of demographic change on achieving these goals. The report details the decline of those living in ...

Poverty affects people around the world. Entire nations are rarely poor but people within nations are. A rich country such as the UK has many people living poverty. A country we tend to think of ...

Both the HDI and per capita income are highly correlated with other widely used measures of poverty (Chart 2), such as the share of the population with income of less than $1 per day (a World Bank ...

there is growing optimism about tackling the issue of poverty. Africa is among the fastest-growing regions in the world. Access to communications is changing the continent and the use and access ...